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CPJ CONDEMNS PHONE AND INTERNET DISRUPTIONS, BARRING OF JOURNALISTS DURING PAKISTAN ELECTION February 8, 2024


76 YEARS ON, PAKISTAN’S MINORITIES STRUGGLE TO MAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD THROUGH THE BALLOT January 24, 2024


JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. WHAT’S CRIMINAL IS THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY FOR JOURNALISTS’ KILLERS IN PAKISTAN November 2, 2023 


KILLING WITH IMPUNITY: VAST MAJORITY OF JOURNALISTS’ MURDERERS GO FREE November 1, 2022


PLIGHT OF JOURNALISTS IN BALOCHISTAN: UNPAID WAGES AND PRECARIOUS WORKING CONDITIONS October 5, 2023


INK AND ANGUISH: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRUGGLES OF BALOCH JOURNALISTS September 17, 2023


THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN FROM HASTILY ADOPTED LAWS AHEAD OF ELECTIONS August 11, 2023


TWO YEARS SINCE TALIBAN TAKEOVER, AFGHAN JOURNALISTS FACE LIMBO IN PAKISTAN July 07, 2023


PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS ABROAD FACE TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS AT HOME June 15, 2023


PAKISTAN: MEDIA GROUP CONDEMNS REGISTRATION OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST FOUR JOURNALISTS June 19, 2023


PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS AHMAD NOORANI AND SHAHID ASLAM TARGETED IN LEAK CASEJune 8, 2023


SPIKE IN HARASSMENT CASES OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS Jun 06, 2023


THREATS, ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS IN PAKISTAN RISE BY OVER 60 PERCENT – REPORT May 1, 2023 


PAKISTAN'S RECENT WIKIPEDIA BAN SPARKS CONTROVERSY OVER BLASPHEMY LAWS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH April 21, 2023 


 ‘IT WAS A CURSE’: JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS HAIL ANNULMENT OF SEDITION LAW AS VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH MARCH 30, 2023


JOURNALIST SYED FAWAD ALI SHAH FOUND JAILED IN PAKISTAN AFTER GOING MISSING IN MALAYSIA March 5, 2023


PAKISTAN URGED TO FREE JOURNALIST HELD ILLEGALLY AFTER BEING DEPORTED FROM MALAYSIA February 2023


SMOKERS’ CORNER: PUNJAB'S BLASPHEMY PROBLEM February 2023


ONLINE HARASSMENT – ANOTHER TEST FOR FEMALE JOURNALISTS December 20, 2022 


SINDH NOTIFIES COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF JOURNALISTS December 2022


PAKISTAN: REPORT SHOWS 100 CHRISTIANS FACED FAITH CONVERSION, CHILD MARRIAGE IN THREE YEARS December 2022


LEAS PUT 62 BLASPHEMERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEHIND THE BARS December 5, 2022


PAKISTAN PARTLY DELIVERED ON PROMISES TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: REPORT December 2022


UNESCO OBSERVATORY OF KILLED JOURNALISTS - PAKISTAN 


JOURNALIST SADAF NAEEM'S DEATH CASTS SPOTLIGHT ON ‘RAT RACE’ OF BREAKING NEWS November 2022


CULTURAL BARRIERS POSING OBSTACLES FOR FEMALE JOURNALISTS IN KP November 2022


CASES OF 96PC MURDERED JOURNALISTS UNSOLVED: REPORT October 2022


VIEW ABOUT A FEMALE JOURNALIST: BOUND TO BE HARASSED IF SHE INVADES MALE SPACE, SAYS IMRAN October 2022


PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORITY (PTA) BLOCKS 1.1 MILLION SOCIAL MEDIA IDS OVER SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST INSTITUTIONS Sep 2022


WHY THE PTA’S MOVE TO REGISTER VPNS SHOULD CONCERN US ALL September 2022


WOMEN JOURNALISTS AT HIGH RISKS OF ATTACK, CENSORSHIP July 2022 


CPNE FORMS EDITORS-GOVT LIAISON COMMITTEE July 2022


CPNE FORMS MEDIA SAFETY AND SECURITY COMMITTEE July 2022


JOURNALISTS PICKED UP DURING PTI GOVT WERE NOT ON MY ORDERS: IMRAN July 2022


5 WOMEN JOURNALISTS FROM KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA WIN INTERNATIONAL AWARDS July 2022


SENATE BODY APPROVES BILL FOR SPECIAL PERSONS’ ACCESS TO MEDIA May 2022


DECLARING AS ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’: IHC STRIKES DOWN PECA ORDINANCE April 2022 


RISE OF THE TAJZIAKARS: IN THE STATE'S WAR AGAINST 'FAKE NEWS', JOURNALISM IS THE REAL LOSER March 2022


PAKISTAN’S NEW MEDIA CRACKDOWN THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM FEBRUARY 2022


JOURNALISTS' UNION CHALLENGES PECA ORDINANCE IN IHC February 2022


BARS TERM PECA ORDINANCE OPPRESSIVE, EXTRACONSTITUTIONAL February 2022


'MEDIA ACT BEING USED TO CURB FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.' ISLAMABAD HIGH COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ATHAR MINALLAH February 2022 


FIVE-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR CRITICISING ARMY, JUDICIARY February 2022


PRESIDENT ARIF ALVI SIGNS PECA, ELECTIONS AMENDMENT ORDINANCES February 2022


“HISTORIC TRIAL” IN LONDON OF MAN ACCUSED OF PLOTTING TO KILL EXILED PAKISTANI BLOGGER January 2022  


PAKISTAN EVENTS OF 2021 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT   


BLASPHEMY, TREASON CHARGES SIMILAR TO DEATH WARRANT: ISLAMABAD HIGH COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ASKS WHY CHANNEL’S LICENCE MAY NOT BE REVOKED January 2022


CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS WHO INVESTIGATED JUDICIAL COLLUSION December 2021


UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION FORCE MEDIA WORKER TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN KARACHI November 2021


SOCIAL MEDIA THREATS TO PAKISTANI WOMEN JOURNALISTS HAS REACHED EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS November 2021


CRACKDOWN ON DISSENTING VOICES IN MEDIA: TWO DOZEN PAK JOURNALISTS PROSECUTED UNDER PECA IN TWO YEARS November 2021


RS500M FINE IF COMPANIES FAIL TO BLOCK ‘CONTENT’ October 2021


PRESS CLUBS TERM PMDA ‘MEDIA MARTIAL LAW September 2021


PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT WANTS TO IMPOSE CENTRALISED CENSORSHIP OFFICE September 2021


THE EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON RAISES CONCERNS OVER VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALISTS IN PAKISTANAugust 2021


PAKISTAN SETS UP SPECIAL CELL IN KABUL TO FACILITATE VISAS FOR AFGHAN JOURNALISTS, FAMILIES August 2021


PAKISTAN’S SOCIAL MEDIA IS OVERFLOWING WITH HATE SPEECH AGAINST AHMADIS July 2021


MEDIA BODIES REJECT ORDINANCE AIMED TO ‘MUZZLE FREEDOM OF PRESS June 2021


MEDIA BODIES WELCOME SINDH ASSEMBLY'S DECISION TO PASS JOURNALISTS' PROTECTION BILL May 2021


INTERNET FREEDOM DECLINED IN PAKISTAN IN 2020, SAYS REPORT May 2021


PAKISTAN’S SHIAS FACE DOUBLE THREAT: EXTREMISTS AND THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT April 2021


ENTIRE EVIDENCE IN DANIEL PEARL CASE DOUBTFUL: SUPREME COURT March 2021


2020 'WORST YEAR IN PAKISTAN'S HISTORY' FOR PRESS FREEDOM, JOURNALISTS' UNION SAYS Jan 2021


IPI LAUNCHES CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA ON SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS December 2020


ONE THIRD OF JOURNALISTS FACING LEGAL CASES AT RISK OF BEING CHARGED UNDER ATA: REPORT November 2020


UN EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS, RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN PAKISTAN September 2020


 PAKISTAN: ACCUSATIONS OF BLASPHEMY CONTINUE TO ENDANGER LIVES August 2020


PAKISTAN'S LARGEST PROVINCE BANS 100 TEXTBOOKS FOR 'BLASPHEMOUS' CONTENT July 2020


ARMY TIGHTENS GRIP ON PAKISTAN AS IMRAN KHAN’S POPULARITY WANES June 2020


PAKISTAN: AHMADIS KEPT OFF MINORITIES COMMISSION   May 2020


​'VICTIM OF A SINISTER CAMPAIGN': PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS FACE RETRIBUTION EVEN IN EUROPEAN EXILE  Apr 2020


IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS, PAKISTAN’S MEDIA IS PLAYING POLITICS-POLITICS Apr 2020


PM OKAYS RS 42MILLION FOR FORMATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA WING TO 'DEFEND GOVT' March 2020


SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY: SURVIVING PAKISTAN'S DEATH ROWFeb 2020


AIC WARNS SOCIAL MEDIA RULES WILL MAKE DIGITAL OPERATIONS 'EXTREMELY DIFFICULT' IN LETTER TO PM IMRAN Feb 2020


PARLIAMENTARY PANEL FINDS SINDH AS HUB OF FORCED CONVERSIONS  Jan 2020


PAKISTAN NO 1 IN FACEBOOK CONTENT CENSORSHIP Nov 2019


'EXTREME FEAR AND SELF-CENSORSHIP': MEDIA FREEDOM UNDER THREAT IN PAKISTAN Nov 2019


PAKISTAN IS “NOT FREE,” FOR INTERNET FREEDOM Nov 2019


PAKISTAN'S MILITARY RIDES ROUGHSHOD OVER THE MEDIA  Oct 2019


ایچ آر سی پی کی گلگت بلتستان پر رپورٹ میں حکومت پر شدید تنقید، خفیہ اداروں کو لگام دینے کا مطالبہ


PAKISTAN DENIES ENTRY TO CPJ'S STEVEN BUTLER, FORCES HIM TO RETURN TO US  Oct 2019


اسلام آباد سے لاپتہ ہونے والے 27 سالہ بلاگر گئے کہاں؟


PAKISTANI CARTOONIST FIRED OVER PM CARICATURE Sep 2019


'SILENCED': PAKISTAN'S JOURNALISTS DECRY NEW ERA OF CENSORSHIP Aug 2019


AFTER A YEAR OF PRESS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS, RSF WRITES TO PAKISTAN’S PREMIER Aug 2019


PAKISTAN HIGH RISK COUNTRY FOR MEDIA PLURALISM: REPORT July 2019


UNDER SIEGE': FEAR AND DEFIANCE MARK LIFE FOR PAKISTAN'S HAZARAS July 2019


WHY PAKISTAN’S SHIAS ARE DISAPPEARING AND GOING INTO ‘SMALL, DARK CELLS’ July 2019


CONCERNS ON THE NEW GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO MONITOR ONLINE TRAFFIC June 2019


ASIA BIBI WAS RELEASED BUT ANOTHER CHRISTIAN COUPLE IS NOW ON DEATH ROW FOR SIMILAR BLASPHEMY CHARGES May 2019


THE RESISTANCE OF PAKISTANI JOURNALISM IS DYING — AND IT FRIGHTENS ME May 2019


CHRISTIAN COUPLE LYNCHING CASE: LHC ACQUITS TWO ACCUSED IN THE BRUTAL MURDER May 2019


FAMILIES OF FALLEN JOURNALISTS AWAIT JUSTICE May 2019


2018 SAW GREATER CONTROLS ON ONLINE FREE SPEECH, THREATS TO DATA PRIVACY IN PAKISTAN: REPORT Apr 2019


JOURNALISTS FACE INTIMIDATION, VIOLENCE’: PAKISTAN RANKS 139TH IN PRESS FREEDOM INDEX Apr 2019


PAKISTAN INVESTIGATING JOURNALISTS FOR POSTING KHASHOGGI’S PHOTO Mar 2019


PAKISTAN: ENDURING ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES Mar 2019


پمرا کے قیام کی منظوری اور حاکم وقت کے قصیدے کہنے سے انکار کرنے والی صحافت Feb 2019


IMRAN KHAN OR AYUB KHAN: IS PMRA THE NEW TOOL TO CURB FREEDOM OF PRESS AND CONTROL MEDIA? Feb 2019


WITH A NO TOLERANCE POLICY ON CRITICISM, HOW IS THE PTI GOVERNMENT DIFFERENT FROM AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME? Jan 2019


72 JOURNALISTS MURDERED IN PAKISTAN SINCE 2002 Jan 2019


INFO MINISTRY SLASHES AD RATES FOR TV CHANNELS Dec  2018


PAKISTAN’S ARMY IS BEHIND AN UNPRECEDENTED CLAMPDOWN ON THE MEDIA Dec 2018


TWO PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY Dec 2018


PAKISTAN SEEMS TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE GLORIOUS DAYS OF CENSORSHIP: MOHAMMED HANIF Dec 2018


CASES OF MISSING PERSONS ON THE RISE IN SOCIETY, OBSERVES SHC Nov 2018


NO ONE CONVICTED AS 26 JOURNALISTS KILLED IN PAKISTANNov 2018


PAKISTAN’S INTERNET FREEDOM RANKING IS “NOT FREE.”  Nov 2018


SENATE BODY ANNOUNCES ROADMAP FOR PROTECTING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OCT 2018


TREASON TRIAL FOR PAKISTANI JOURNALIST SIGNALS NEW PRESSURE ON MEDIA OCT 2018


ACTS OF INTIMIDATION: IN PAKISTAN, JOURNALISTS' FEAR AND CENSORSHIP GROW EVEN AS FATAL VIOLENCE DECLINES SEP 2018


PAKISTAN HAS A GENOCIDAL OBSESSION WITH BLASPHEMY Sep 2018


FEARS OF THE FOURTH ESTATE: CURRENT CHALLENGES FOR THE PAKISTANI PRESS Sep 2018


IMRAN KHAN SHOWS HIS COWARDICE BY DROPPING PRINCETON PROF ATIF MIAN OVER AHMEDIA IDENTITY Sep 2018 


THE CURIOUS CASE OF CHRISTIAN MEN GONE MISSING FROM A KARACHI NEIGHBOURHOOD Sep 2018    


SOME OF PAKISTAN'S FINEST MILITARY MINDS HAVE BEEN AHMADI. CLERICS NEED TO STOP ABUSING THEM July 2018


MISSING PERSONS CASE: IHC JUDGE URGES ARMY CHIEF TO REIN IN SECRET AGENCIES’ OFFICIALS July 2018


WHAT IS BEHIND THE CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN PAKISTAN? July 2018


MEDIA PUSHED FOR OBJECTIVE POLL REPORTING July 2018


READY TO FIGHT ‘DARK FORCES’ FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: PFUJ July 2018


THE ASSAULT ON PAKISTAN MEDIA AHEAD OF VOTE July 2018


PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE ENDORSES BLASPHEMY LAWS July 2018


NON-MUSLIM LEADERS, WORSHIP PLACES CONTINUE TO VANISH AS PAKISTANIS KEEP FAILING JINNAH  (Urdu reading) June 2018


DISRUPTION TO DAWN’S DISTRIBUTION CONTINUES ACROSS COUNTRY June 2018

 

PAKISTAN RELIEF AFTER ABDUCTED JOURNALIST GUL BUKHARI IS FREED June 2018


PAKISTAN: ALARMING CRACKDOWN AHEAD OF ELECTIONS FOR SITE June 2018


PAKISTAN’S DRACONIAN RAMADAN LAWS TAKE TOLL ON MINORITIES June 2018


MEDIA CRACKDOWN RAISES FEARS FOR PAKISTAN’S DEMOCRACY June 2018


THE STORY OF PAKISTAN'S 'DISAPPEARED' SHIAS June 2018


PAKISTAN AUTHORITIES BLOCK DISTRIBUTION OF OLDEST NEWSPAPER May 2018


PAKISTAN: CAMPAIGN OF HACKING, SPYWARE AND SURVEILLANCE TARGETS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS May 2018


IN BLOW TO MINORITIES, PAKISTANI COURT ORDERS CITIZENS TO DECLARE RELIGION MARCH 2018


THE BRILLIANT KRISHNA KUMARI JUST BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE DALIT SENATOR OF PAKISTAN. HERE’S WHY THAT’S GREAT NEWS MARCH 2018


ATTORNEY OF BLASPHEMY ACCUSED PATRAS MASIH RELEASES CASE FACT SHEET MARCH 2018


BLASPHEMY SUSPECT IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER ‘FALLING OFF’ FOURTH FLOOR OF FIA BUILDING Feb 2018


PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN PATRAS MASIH ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY IN LAHORE Feb 2018


PAKISTANI PROFESSOR’S ENDLESS BLASPHEMY TRIAL February 2018


PAKISTAN PROPOSES SAME SENTENCE FOR BLASPHEMERS, FALSE ACCUSERS February 2018


REMEMBERING PAKISTAN'S EMPOWERING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ASMA JAHANGIR February 2018


RELATIVES PROTEST AS 'MISSING' MAN IS FOUND MURDERED OUTSIDE KARACHI February 2018


WHO CONTROLS PAKISTAN?  July  2017


THE SECULAR MYTH June 2017


Speechless Republic  June 2017 


A poem about mortality of Free Speech in Pakistan (URDU) May 2017


What’s behind the ‘deal’?  May 2017


Scenario  (Urdu)  May 2017


Mob lynching of Mashal Khan is silencing the Freedom of Speech at the campuses in Pakistan  Apr 2017


Mashal Khan – Another victim of barbaric and misconceived blasphemy in Pakistan  Apr 2017


How the Women Are Suffering for Not Speaking Up in Pakistan…..   Apr 2017


The government of Pakistan, Judiciary, biased Media, and the Vigilantes – Pakistan’s Unholy Alliance against Freedom of ExpressionMarch 2017


DRACONIAN LAWS THREATEN PRESS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN  Jan 2017


GREAT PAKISTANIS OF 2016  Jan 2017


THE KIDNAPPING OF ZEENAT SHAHZADI August 2016


VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Nov 2015